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I am 38 years old. I have been filing taxes since I was 17. That is 21 years of tax love between me and the IRS. If the IRS and I had a baby it would be of legal drinking age this year. I have a feeling she would be a difficult child.

I would hope that child would get my sense of humor and the IRS’s knack for numbers.

I am trying to have a sense of humor regarding my taxes. I am waiting on a sizable refund and short story long, we submitted 01/30/16. They flagged us, then admitted it was their mistake, and said they would reprocess. That takes me to today. 04/04/16. Over 65 days since we filed. I am making my weekly call as we speak. Trying to understand, trying to be patient.

Trying

I am currently listening to the soothing sound of IRS hold music while trying as hard as I can to remember not to have a single SMIDGE of attitude towards whomever gets my call. Because last person you want to piss off is the IRS. Hell we didn’t even do anything incorrectly and our 3K is being held hostage.

Held just because…

Current time on Hold: 22 Minutes

Talking to a lovely woman (no sarcasm) but have again been placed on hold
Current time on Hold: 32 Minutes

This being my 4th call, we just found out that they had our wrong address. Which is TOTES weird since, A. We filed with our current (new) address. And B. I have made 4 other filth flarn and filth calls and this has NEVER come up.

I am trying so hard to let this go. But, we never received a notification there was a problem (we still have a mail forward in, so we would have received it) we keep calling, being reassured it isn’t our fault. And they’re working on it.

I have decided it has been placed upon the desk of a person I can only assume, unfortunately had a rather nasty attack of Shingles, and has been out of the office since 2/22/16.

My return is in the 2nd stack to the left under the black folder. I can see my name.

I swear it is lost. None of this makes any sense.

I was just told there is NOTHING they can do. They are allowed the 9 weeks to reprocess my return. Even if it is their fault. And if it still has no movement by 4/11 then they have 45 days to research. Dear LORD give me patience and liquor.

Current time on Hold: 45 minutes

I was given a number for a “Taxpayer Advocate” number. Estimated wait time 2-4 minutes with the Advocate.

Score!!!

I will keep everyone updated. All 3 followers I have left because I have been chilling with Netflix and my head in the sand for the last 6 months.

PS. “Love” and “The Ranch” were surprisingly good series on Netflix. Give em a shot.